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Growth Mindset: The Guide To Changing Your Mindset Forever
Most thoughts come as a response to something else.
This can be something outside of ourselves, or inside of us, such as an emotion, situation, word, action or anything that triggers a sense of ours.
Some thoughts are triggered seemingly randomly, but even those will likely have a cause, albeit maybe not one that we are consciously aware of.
Our Mindsets make up a network of default paths these triggered thoughts take.
Every thought has to take a journey in our minds.
It has a starting point (a trigger) that leads to a response to the trigger (often an action), and everything in-between makes up the journey.
In this way we can imagine a thought like a car driving from a starting point to an end point.
Much like a car, a thought will seek out certain pathways, trying to take the fastest route, and will avoid the underdeveloped or rocky pathways.
This is due to the fact that our thoughts are electrical impulses and electricity always takes the path of least resistance, and, just like a network of roads has faster roads (such as highways) our brains have insulated pathways that allow the electrical impulses to travel faster and using less energy.
